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MPETERS, PKOTD-UTNOGRAFMER. WASHINGTON. D, C,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT Gr. MEAD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF OF HIS RIGHT TO MILTON A. KENT, OF SAME PLACE.-

SPRING GLOVE OR GARMENT FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,440, dated May 11, 1880.

Application filed July 15, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT G. MEAD, of Boston, county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful'Improvernents in Spring Glove or Garment Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to that class of fasteners composed of a stud on the one hand, and on the other hand of a button containing a spring to engage said stud and provided with an opening through which the stud may enter the button and reach the spring.

My invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts of the fastener, as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical central section of a button embodying inyinvention. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the same in the plane of the spring jaws. Fig. 3 is an elevationof the button. Fig. 4 is a vertical central section of the stud. All the figures represent the parts on an enlarged scale. 2 5 In the several figures, (t represents the metallic cap of the button 3 b, the spring; 0, the disk on which the spring rests, and f the fast ening-eyelet, by which the button is secured to the fabric or skin a.

In the button the disk 0 constitutes not only the support for the spring I), but also the bottom piece over the end of which the cap is swaged or pressed. The spring b is of the general form shown in Fig. 2. It is arranged 5 and held between the plate ordisk c and the cap to, its sprii'ig-jaws I) b nominally closing together so asto be smaller in diameter than the central opening in the'disk o. The stud 2', when pushed up through the opening in the 40 button, meets and with its rounded head pushes apart the spring-jaws, which close around the neck of the stud and lie in the annular groove '6, formed therein. The cap a is perforated centrally to allow the stud to be pushed up far enough to engage the spring. In lieu of per- 5 forating the cap, it may be raised centrally.

The stud may be of any approved construction. I prefer that shown in Fig. 4, the same being a construction which permits me to fasten it readily or securely in place on the fabric or skin. The lower end of the stud is made tubular and like an eyelet, as shown. In applying it to the skin the head of the stud is first passed upward through the hole in the skin, then the eyelet g is passed over the head of the stud and pressed down into place, and finally, in completing the operation of fastening, the eyelet gis pressed and spread so as to tightly embrace the inside of the turned lower or tubular end of the stud, which has hereinbefore been described as beingin the shape of an eyelet, as plainly shown in Fig. 4. In this way the stud can be most firmly secured in place. At the same time it has no direct connection with the skin, butis held thereto simply through the intervention of the eyelet g.

Having described my improvements, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. The spring button-fastener composed of the cap a, the disk 0, and the spring 1), formed and supported at its opposite ends against the side of thecap, as described, and held closely between said cap and disk, a passage being formed centrallyin the disk and cap to permit the entrance between the spring-jaws of the shank of the stud to be held, substantially as shown and set forth.

2. The stud formed with an eyelet-like lower end and provided with an independent encir- 8o cling eyelet, by which the stud is attached and held to the fabric or skin, substantially as set forth.

' ALBERT e. MEAD.

Witnesses:

F. GUETIs, H. E. LODGE. 

